a young couple and the kidnapping of the couple’s newborn son.


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Relentless), Italy (Newton Compton), Spain (Atico de los Libros), Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Finland (Minerva), Russia (Eksmo)


In the Heart of Hidden Things Kit Whitfield Fantasy set in a rural community where disputes between landowners and the common folk threaten to disrupt “the People” and destroy everyone’s fragile existence.


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Jo Fletcher)


United Agents


Limitarinism Ingrid Robeyns A timely and important look at the case against extreme wealth by the chair of ethics in institu- tions at Utrecht University.


Agent Sophie Scard Rights UK (Allen Lane), the Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Russia (Sindbad)


Cleopatra and Frankenstein Coco Mellors “Addictive, luminous and heartbreaking” début novel about the shock waves caused by one couple’s impulsive marriage.


Agent Millie Hoskins Rights UK (Fourth Estate), US (Bloomsbury), Germany (Eichborn)


Mother’s Day Abigail Burdess Comedian and script- writer Burdess’ first novel has down-on-her-luck Anna discovering she is pregnant, so she goes searching for her own birth mother—which throws up more than she bargained for.


Agent Millie Hoskins Agent Donald Winchester


Earthshot: How to Save our Planet Jonnie Hughes & Colin Butfield Inspiring action plans to turn the tide on the environmental crisis from the climate change organisation set up by Prince William, with contributions from Sir


TheBookseller.com


Not that Kind of Ever After Luci Adams A disenchanted twenty-something, burnt out on dating apps and a stalled career, begins chronicling her dating experiences and upending the fairytale


David Attenborough and Shakira.


Agent Robert Kirby Rights World English (John Murray), the Nether- lands (Luitingh Sijthoff), Greece (Psichogios), Hungary (Alexandra)


Late Romantics Luke Neima The Granta deputy editor’s début is inspired by the real story of the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Robert and Clara Schumann, with their love triangle transposed to the Montreal music scene of the early 2000s.


Agent Seren Adams


Watson, Little A Sense of Belonging Holan Liang Great Ormond Street psychiatrist Liang’s groundbreaking look at combatting loneliness and isolation, drawing on decades of work in mental health services, plus her personal experience as an immigrant and senior woman doctor.


Agent Laetitia Rutherford Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (Short), UK audio (Audible)


The Last House R G Adams The second in the series set in a Welsh clifftop town, featuring the troubled, lovable, sleuthing social worker Kit Goddard.


Agent Laetitia Rutherford Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (riverrun), film/TV (Red & Black/Vox)


The Long History of the Future Nicole Kobie The truth about future tech—artificial intel- ligence, Elon Musk, smart cities, driverless cars—why it never seems to arrive, and the real value of tech- nology and research.


The Wylie Agency


The Great Experiment Yascha Mounk A big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of our time: how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies so that they are able to be stable and functional.


Agent Andrew Wylie Rights US (Penguin), UK (Bloomsbury), Germany (Droemer), Spain (Planeta), Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (Spectrum), France (Les Editions L’Observatoire), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Czech Republic (Prostor)


The Snow Forest Elizabeth Gilbert The Eat Pray Love author returns to fiction with “a tale of mysticism and fundamentalism, purity and corruption, loyalty and responsibility, decep- tion and trust”, set in a remote mining town in late 1970s Siberia.


Agent Sarah Chalfant Rights US (Riverhead)


Glory NoViolet Bulawayo The Booker shortlistee’s second novel centres around the fall of Old Horse, the long-serving leader of an animal king- dom, based on the coup of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.


Agent Sarah Chalfant Rights UK (Chatto), Germany (Suhrkamp), US (Viking)


Either/Or Elif Batuman This loose continuation


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narrative online—but when she suddenly goes viral, complications arise.


Agent Megan Carroll Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (Piatkus), US (St Martin’s), Russia (Eksmo)


The Black Locomotive Rian Hughes The XX author’s latest is a “J G Ballard meets ‘Arrival’” story of an alien artefact discovered underneath Buckingham Palace, throwing human- ity’s relationship to tech- nology into stark relief.


Agent James Wills Rights World English (Picador)


of New Yorker staffer Batuman’s début novel The Idiot is a coming-of- age story with Harvard second-year Selin decid- ing to live her life as if it’s a book she is reading, and do the most outrageous things.


Agent Sarah Chalfant Rights UK (Cape), US (Penguin), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Einaudi), Sweden (Natur och Kultur)


Ulvene Fra Evighetens Skog (The Wolves of Eternity) Karl Ove Knausgård The second in the author’s Morning Star suite of novels is a prequel that opens in 1986 with 20-year-old Syvert Løyning’s discovery of a stash of love letters from his father, in Russian, to an unknown woman.


Agent Andrew Wylie Rights UK (Harvill), US (Penguin), Norway (Okto- ber); Harvill Secker (UK); Canada (Knopf), Germany (Luchterhand), Denmark (Lindhardt og Ringhof), Sweden (Norstedts)


Photography: Amber Rose


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